So you think “Black culture” is inferior to “White culture” because the “instincts” of Black people are inferior and biologically distinct from White people—a distinction derived from evolution? And you think I am an incompetent “pet” of upper class White people?

I must say it…

The other day I sat down at Harvard Book Store with Laurence Ralph to discuss his new book SITO: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him. SITO is a beautifully written and riveting book about a teenager known as Sito who was shot to death at nineteen years old in his…

Shout out to the author of this op-ed, Matt Reid, and all the teachers using graphic novels to get students interested in learning about history. They work. They really do. #StampedfromtheBeginning

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Thinking about knowledge and power today. #HowToBeAnAntiracist

#MustSeeScreening

So thrilled for this! Thank you to the Writers Guild. Big congrats to David Teague and the entire team behind Stamped from the Beginning led by Roger Ross Williams, Alisa Payne and Mara Brock Akil. As a writer, I remain in awe of the screenplay: the transformation of this…

A new edition of Malcolm X Speaks came out today. Many thanks to Grove Press for giving me the opportunity to introduce this monumental collection of speeches and statements from one of the greatest orators and revolutionaries in American history. #MalcolmXSpeaks

A great read!
Thank you ⁦Ibram X. Kendi⁩

I’m told this almost never happens (unless the author or the subject dies). But somehow, 5 months after Black AF History debuted, it made its way back on the NY Times Bestseller List AGAIN.

Thanks y’all

This standing ovation capped off a recent #Barracoon event I’ll never forget at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Denver, organized by Tattered Cover. The church was founded in August 1859, the same month a ship named the Clotilda arrived in Mobile, Alabama, with Cudjo Lewis…

New book alert! Thank you to Dr. Keisha N. Blain and all the Black women contributors for WAKE UP AMERICA.

This book is as urgent as it is imperative.

A minor is a child.

We are overjoyed over here because of this! Second week #Barracoon is a New York Times Best Seller. This never gets old. The gratefulness is always new. 🙏🏾

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The third starred review for #Barracoon , adapted for young readers. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

This time from the librarians over at School Library Journal. 🙏🏾🙌🏾

The review in full:

“Collected by Zora Neale Hurston in 1931, the tale of the ‘Last Black Cargo’ wasn’t published for 87 years because…

#SayHerName . #SandraBland should be celebrating her 37th birthday today. “Until justice rolls down like water...”

If you believe this to be 100% true, then that means you believe Black people contributed little to the abolition of slavery.

Since you are so stuck on White saviors, you may want to save yourself from ignorance.

The ultimate White savior statement.